Is science fiction going out of date? No point asking me – I’m too old – so I had a talk with Randy-at-the-bank, who looks to me to be about 25. (That may mean he’s 35: as you get older the young look younger, just as when you’re young the old look older. Time is relative. I know that from reading sci-fi.) I knew he was a sci-fi fan because he said he liked . So as he was setting loose the key I had somehow got stuck in my own safety-deposit box, I asked him what he thought.…
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